GA-02353 1953 relevance B public
Meeting of the Onder Sectie Comites, PKI Surabaya (laporan CIA, 1953)
CIA report, 23 February 1953: Meeting of the sub-section committees, PKI Surabaya
CIA report, 23 February 1953, on a PKI Surabaya sub-section committees' meeting (Dec 1952) with directives on discipline, cadres and election preparation, including 'more support' for Gerwis. Shows Gerwis treated as a PKI-supported front.
Laporan CIA, 23 Februari 1953, tentang rapat komite sub-seksi PKI Surabaya (Des 1952) dengan arahan soal disiplin, kader dan persiapan pemilu, termasuk 'lebih banyak dukungan' bagi Gerwis. Menunjukkan Gerwis diperlakukan sebagai organisasi yang didukung PKI.
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- Date
- 1953
- Creator
- CIA
- Document type
- government record (intelligence information report (declassified CIA field report, CREST))
- Language
- English; Indonesian; Dutch
- Perspective
- Intelligence/diplomatic record
- Source role
- primary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1950–1954
- Source archive
- archive.org · source link
- Access
- CIA CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) declassified Information Reports, released under the 1978 regrading letter and later CREST releases; available open access through the CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (cia.gov/readingroom) under the document number given in the file name; PDF from Nath's Gerwani folder, cloud text slice made by OCR; retrieval date 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Central Intelligence Agency. (1953, February 23). Meeting of the Onder Sectie Comites of the PKI [Information report, CIA-RDP80-00810A000300430009-2]. CIA CREST, approved for release 2001.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/CIA (1953) - Meeting of the Onder Sectie Comites, PKI Surabaya [CIA-RDP80-00810A000300430009-2].pdf
- OCR / text
- Fair (0.85) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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